ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Photograph

A photograph is like a picture that you take with a special device called a camera. When you push a button on the camera, it captures the moment and creates a picture that you can keep forever. It's like using a crayon to make a drawing, but instead of crayons, you use a camera to make a photograph.

The camera has a special lens that captures light, which is how we see things. It then takes that light and saves it onto a memory card. When you want to see your picture, you can look at it on the camera or transfer it to a computer or a phone.

Photographs are great because they can help us remember special moments and people that we love. They can also show us things that we have never seen before, like animals that live on the other side of the world, or landscapes that we have never explored.

So, a photograph is just a special picture that we take with a camera to keep a memory or to show something unique.